The Brothers Grimm

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm have always been dark, but director Terry Gilliam's lights-out adaptation is downright black, combining supernatural shenanigans with enough sick sight gags to have you crawling back for seconds. Matt Damon and Heath Ledger are great in the title roles as a pair of tale-spinning con artists, but Gilliam's twisted take on the stories we only thought we knew steals the show. In this movie, the fairy tales have been totally fractured—a princess sleeps for five centuries only to wake up as the opposite of a "Sleeping Beauty." ("Those 500 years haven’t been kind to her, Will," says Jacob Grimm, as he eyes her decomposing corpse.) Over the course of the flick, the brothers watch their imagination come to life until they can't tell what’s real and what’s myth. A gingerbread man eats Hansel; a horse uses a spider web to spin a boy into his mouth; hell, Gilliam even finishes a film in under a decade. And while it did still take two years to complete, this group of fairy tales will make sure moviegoers everywhere live happily ever after. (Or at least until Big Momma's House 2 comes out.)